2005 Quady Winery Black Muscat Elysium

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 87.6 points

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  10/28/2007 - Jekka wrote: 89 Points

  Not a terribly complicated wine, but I don't always want to drink something that makes me want to write a thesis. This was very nice at the end of a long day, with smells of candied raspberries and roses.

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  2/4/2007 - paulst wrote: 90 Points

  Refreshing raspberry and cherry fruit.

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  11/4/2006 - GavinP wrote: 87 Points

  Brings back memories of my Grandad's rose petal wine. Very enjoyable but with no great complexity. E loves this.

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  10/15/2006 - pontac wrote: 83 Points

  Well, it was sweet but one dimenesional and not much else going on in it. I'd have liked some balancing acidity. It is fortified -- to 15% -- and I wondered whether the added spirits suppressed whatever flavours the grape offered. I'd like to try a sweet non-fortified Black Muscat. I doubt I'll buy it again, but if I do I'd pair it with a dessert with some acidity, such as a lemon flan.

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  4/13/2006 - wilark wrote:

  Muscat Hamburg is one of the very few black skinned muscats. If ripened to about 25 brix, it attains a rose-like aroma and litchi like flavor. This rose-like aroma led us to name the wine Elysium, Greek for heaven. Drinking this, you can almost feel you have fallen into a rose garden and been transported to heaven.
  
  Elysium is used to either accompany or replace dessert. It is wonderful with blue cheeses, with desserts containing red fruits (such as Summer Pudding, and English favorite), with vanilla, with dark chocolate, with ice cream desserts, and candlelight. One favorite is to pour the wine onto vanilla ice cream. Serve Elysium Sundae with a glass of Elysium.
  
  A very cool cocktail is the "Angeli Cooler". Fill a wine glass with ice cubes. Combine tonic water with Elysium (1/2 and 1/2) and a lemon wedge. The Angeli Cooler is perfect on those warm summer nights.
  
  

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